The divine flood
Subtitle: Ibrahim Niasse and the roots of a twentieth-century Sufi revival
By: Rüdiger Seesemann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780195384321
Subjects: Sufism; Tijānīyah members; Islamic learning and scholarship; Biography; History; Tijānīyah; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A flood shall come upon my companions"; title: Studying Sufism in context; title: Beginnings: Ibrahim Niasse and the advent of the flood; title: Spiritual training: the way to mystical knowledge; title: Seeing God: the nascent community; title: Crossing borders: expansion in Senegal and beyond; title: "The supreme saint of his time": a prophecy fulfilled; title: After the flood.